Iron Banner

The Iron Banner is a time-limited DestinyCrucible event occurring at various times in the year. You'll be informed about a new Iron Banner event when viewing your sign into a character. You must be level 40 to compete in the Iron Banner.

Unlike typical Crucible matches, Iron Banner contestants will enjoy the full advantages of their gear in competitive 6-on-6 matches. If its your first Year 3 Iron Banner, make sure you pick up the quest In Pursuit of Light to go along with the event.

Typical, Destiny's Crucible events adjust the effectiveness of player weapons. Weapons in Iron Banner battles deal their full, unscaled damage against foes, and armor provides protection based on unmodified rating relative to enemy weapon rankings. Thus, high Light rating Guardians with powerful gear will be at a decisive competitive advantage.

There are only four weekly bounties in the Iron Banner now, each giving you 750 reputation with the Iron Banner. Additionally, each win gives you 250 reputation and each Medallion turned in gives you 150. Once you have one character Ranked up, an alt buff kicks in for your other characters that doubles the rep gained.

Each weekly bounty requires you to earn 100 points in it. The bounties are as follows:

With the new and improved Iron Banner, some changes have come into play with the balancing. Every 10 Light levels or so will count as higher or lower power value of 1 in the Iron Banner, meaning someone at 290 will be two power levels below someone at 310.

In the end, what this means is that someone at Light level 300 will take very low damage from someone in the mid to low 200s. Players within 10-20 Light levels of each other shouldn't have too much difficulty, but beyond that it will be much more noticeable.